Claims That Christianity and Witchcraft Are The SAME?

Navigating the tempestuous waters of anger and spirituality, I open up about my own battles with rage, particularly within the context of parenting post-divorce. As we grapple with the complexities of faith and forgiveness, I confront the spiritually corrosive effects of nurturing resentment, sharing insights from my turbulent experiences with my teenage son. This episode isn't just a confession; it's a journey toward understanding the true nature of Christianity, as we dispel myths about its association with witchcraft and realign with the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and the prophets.

Amidst these reflections, we also examine the thin line between wrestling with sin and being ensnared by it. With the help of Scripture, notably Galatians 5 and 2 Timothy 3, we dissect the powerful role of the Holy Spirit in guiding us away from anger and towards the fruits of love, joy, peace, and self-control. The discussion doesn't shy away from the stark realities of modern society, mirroring the end times' descriptions and highlighting the church's pivotal role in embodying Christ's love and forgiveness. Through candid dialogue and spiritual introspection, this episode calls for a revival of authentic faith that transforms lives and offers true forgiveness—demonstrating the life-changing impact of living by the Spirit's power.

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Speaker 1: 0:01

Faith and Failure's podcast.

Speaker 2: 0:05

That's ridiculous, so let's do this dude right here.

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I'm really confused as to how you can think.

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Now I don't know if that's his real voice or not. Would that dude probably hit puberty at like three years old, but let this sink in.

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If Christianity was all witchcraft, christianity wouldn't even be around right now. The Bible wouldn't be around right now. Jesus wouldn't be around right now. Jesus wasn't a witch. Jesus didn't die as a witch. Jesus certainly didn't die as a man, because he was more than a man.

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Jesus didn't do dark spells, he didn't do sorcery, he didn't do dark magic practices with the devil, because as a matter of fact, in the Old Testament there are prophets that went up against the sorcerers, went up like it would be ignorant of the devil to go up against himself, to divide himself. It wouldn't make a whole lot of sense, just like when they tried to say that Jesus was demonic and he had the devil, and that's how he was casting out demons. A house divided by itself the house will crumble. It's the same exact scenario. Like you would not have all these witchcraft, junk, and Christianity too, they would still be aligned in the same, even if they were branches off of each other, they would be very similar.

Speaker 1: 1:12

But remember that's one of the main definitions of witchcraft Christian, witch, witch, Christian doesn't go together. It doesn't, it never has. You're either a Christian that believes that Jesus was the Son of God, that died on the cross for his sins, rose from the dead, or you're a witch.

Speaker 2: 1:33

So let's…. Now, some of you may or if you don't know this, you may be like well, where's it say in New Testament? We've been doing a lot of Old Testament today, so I want you to read this right here. Mark this in your Bible, Screenshot it. If you're watching online or if you're just listening on…. By the way, go to any place you listen to podcasts, and faith and failures is there. You can download the episodes, Save them for later. We try to put them out every week, so sometimes fall behind on that because YouTube and Facebook take so much time to edit.

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But anyways, when you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear. Sexual immorality. Now, this is New Testament. Okay, it does not say homosexuality because it doesn't have to.

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Sexual immorality is an umbrella of all sexual acts outside of the way God designed marriage in the very beginning man and woman. Sexual immorality, impurity. So if you are living a life right now and you are not married, you're not in a relationship, but you're just going out banging whatever you can at the club, that's impurity. Your thoughts, you may be watching porn. You're living an impure life with your mind, body and soul. This also piles up. You see, all these are categorized right here with each other Sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility. Now, these are some that, like everyday life, we act like they're okay, but the Bible calls them and groups them in with all these other things Idolatry, sorcery, almost that.

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Hospitality, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outburst of anger and this is listen. If I'm being honest with you, this is one that in this new year I've asked God, Lord, please help me, because I have a teenage boy. Okay, he gets malvy, he gets, he has ADHD severely, and sometimes, if his medicine is not kicked in or he, sometimes it doesn't have anything to do with medicine at all, he's just completely disrespectful. He talks to my wife in a certain way. That outburst of anger comes very quickly and it sometimes is hard for me to harness it and stop it before I smack him upside his head, or sometimes I do it just to scare him, like act like I'm going to do something and I really don't do anything, but like I want that, I want that fear to be in him a little bit, to not speak to my wife that way. But I've asked God, I've said and the reason I you know what, and it wasn't even because I felt convicted about this right here, because I don't know about you, but any of these things.

Speaker 2: 3:59

It's very easy to justify. It's very easy to say well, I'm just thinking, I'm not doing. And Jesus said if you look upon one with lust, you have already committed adultery and you can fade away all the other Bible you want. But. And then just stick to Jesus. And he said that you know what I mean. Or if you hate, you've already murdered, and that's, I think that's some of that stuff right.

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There is why we healings that don't take place for miracles and don't take place in our lives, because we're unwilling to allow ourselves, allow our spirits to be healed from damage that has happened in our lives. It's very easy to do, it's not. I can live an entire life of unforgiveness and never even realize it's there. So what got me to thinking about Albers to Venger in my personal life is my ex-wife. I'm divorced and my son was with them for a little Christmas holiday break and she sent me a text or I guess her husband did with a picture of him. He had done something to a piece of their furniture and he jacked it up pretty good. They had destroyed it. It still was functional, but it the only thing I believe with a hundred percent certainty. It was the spirit of God.

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The only thing I could think of in that moment when I got that, when I had to go pick him up because they were done with them, they're like you know what, this, this ruined everything. Come on, come get him. So I wouldn't got him. The only thing I could think of the entire time was he got that from somewhere and I know it was me like that that broke me. And when I picked him up he was, you know, quiet because he knew he'd done something wrong and instead of me, cause he knew it was wrong, there was no lecture that I could give him to make him realize more that he had done wrong. There was no spanking I could give him. I mean, it was bad enough that he, he was pretty much pushed out of his mom's house.

Speaker 2: 5:45

And so what I did was I asked him. I said I know, anger is hard to harness and sometimes you hold it in so much that all of a sudden you just burst out and it just happens. And so the only thing that I could think to do was, while I was driving down I 20, to go back home I said, Tristan, will you, will you pray for me that my anger will go away? And as he held my hand as I was driving down the road, I know he was the one that messed up, but I realized very quickly that so was I, and then I had taught him this behavior. Now I know there's other people in his life that's not innocent and they yell and scream and stuff like that too. But but it doesn't matter. I can't pass blame on things that are actually my fault.

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And so this outburst of anger I had, I had felt, and it really was like rage that would build up inside of me from his mouth and disrespect and and you know, whatever he would do. But I submitted myself to my son and told him and explained to him that it could be me. That was the problem of how he was acting. And I can't, I cannot explain to you the peace that came over the vehicle when we were driving down the road, when he was praying for me, and I felt, I felt release and I felt delivered. There's been a couple of times that's been a couple of months ago. Well, it's the January. It was in December, beginning of December, the end of December and I have not had but a couple of times that try to build up inside of me and I would immediately feel it and I would pray and I'll say God, please take this away from me, because I don't want to be that man.

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And how many of us? We have several things on this list and at the end of all of this list you can look it up yourself Matthew chapter I think I mean sorry, Galatians, chapter five, verse 19. Through 20, 21, even envy, drunkenness, wild parties with other sins like these. It says there's even more, but I'm not gonna list them all because a lot of these have brothers and sisters to hang out with them all the time. And he said let me tell you again, as I have done before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the kingdom of God. And so he sets it up to where he lists these things right here to say all of these things.

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Now I want you to understand struggling with these things and living the lifestyle of these things are two separate things. I wanna be very clear on that. You can struggle with something and not be living in that lifestyle and want God to actually do something and strive towards that. But I believe he set this whole thing up right here. Look at the whole title living by the Spirit's power. If we're allowing the Holy Spirit, if the Spirit of God is living inside of us, if the Holy Spirit is directing, leading and guiding everything that we do, we should be first in line to say Lord, is it me, Is there something that I can do to change whatever is going on? Is there something that can come from here to change everything out here? And I am a walking testimony that when I just would look for a second and recognize that I did have outburst of anger, no matter what my justification was, that I actually did have a problem, that I actually needed to correct something in my life, that I needed the Spirit of God to correct something in my life, it made me now open and more available to what came after. But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. All of these other things right here I'm pretty good at. But I know from me, living my life, I have a problem right here and sometimes it affects and manipulates and ends up in some of these.

Speaker 2: 9:16

God hasn't designed us. He created us in flesh but in his image, and so, if God is Spirit, he designed us and he desires for us to not just live a life of flesh but a life full of the Spirit, so that we can nail our passions and desires of our sinful nature to the cross and crucify them there. That's the whole purpose of Jesus coming was for our salvation, so that all of these things that try to trap us, that try to bind us, that try to keep us sinful, but God wants us to live here. God wants us to be led by the Spirit, to have these things, these fruit, to be flourishing in our lives, and so that we can nail our sinful nature to the cross, so that we are living by the Spirit. Let us follow by the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. Let us not become conceited or provoke one another or be jealous of one another. One more scripture Now.

Speaker 2: 10:12

If you're going through a hard time, if you're going through a tough season in your life and maybe you've experienced depression, anxiety or whatever, you wanna fill in the gap with whatever you wanna put inside of that blank. I hope this encourages you. In 2 Timothy, chapter 3, 1 through 5, it says you should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be difficult times. Okay, and I believe with all my heart the last days that Jesus talked about, the last days the prophets talked about that we are in those last days. Jesus is coming back soon. He is coming to get His bride spotless and blameless.

Speaker 2: 10:47

Then, in the last days will be difficult times, for people will love only themselves and their money and they will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. Y'all does that not sound like today? They will be unloving and unforgiving. So this is right here, these two things right here. This is where God wants to change the church, to be a loving people again, to be a forgiving people again. Because I believe in miracle signs and wonders, that when we start to love and we start to forgive and we start to see people as people that need God, that need miracles, that need salvation, that need compassion, miracle signs and wonders will follow those that believe they will be unloving and unforgiving.

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So when we are these things, think about what the text is saying here. It's saying people will be lovers of themselves. It doesn't say in this text, God's people. So, With context clues, that's saying that when we are acting in this way, we are acting like the world, we are not acting like the Father or like Jesus. We are being unloving and unforgiving. They will be unloving and unforgiving, they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good and they will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, man, pride month, and that is the root of all this nonsense. They will act religious. Oh, Pope Francis, what are you doing, bro? The Bible knew you would do it, but they will reject the power that can make them godly, which is the power of the Father, the power of Jesus, the forgiveness of Jesus. Now, what does it say?

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Some people cannot handle being around, people who used to do what they do. For instance, not that I couldn't handle it, but a pastor asked me one time like, would you ever be interested in coming to this church over here and taking over? I'm going to retire, and it was in the place, the city, that I did a lot of drugs and I was running around every, around that whole entire place, a small town. I could see places that I buried drugs and I buried a pipe, that I went and hid from the cops over here, that I went, and you know all these and I'm like I did not want to have that in my face the whole time. So God didn't take me there, God didn't move me there. I never felt that Sometimes you have to kick the dust off your feet and you have to stay away from people like that for the betterment of your spirit.

Speaker 2: 13:09

At the end of the day, when you lay your head on your pillow, your mom, your dad, your aunt, your uncle, your grandma, your grandma, grandpa, your, your sisters you know all the people that related to you, your kids, it doesn't matter. You are responsible for you. When you stand before an Almighty God, you have to answer for you, and so if it is poison to your soul, if there's a certain type of person that makes you not want to have self-control, stay away from them. Like Jacob Potiphar's wife, he ran. He did not stay there and wrestle. He ran from what would make him fall. He knew himself well enough.

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Stay away from people like that. Guard yourself so that you can be the man and woman of God that God desires for you to be. Be humble enough, Be mature enough that you can stop for a second and say is it possible, God? What do I need to change in my life? What do I need to give completely over to you? What do I need to let go of? What do I need to pick up? What do I need to lay down? What is it in my life so that I can live a life pleasing to the Lord? Because if you're a Christian, that should be. All People does not matter in this area.

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You are not called to allow people to dictate your spirituality or your relationship with God. A lot of times, it's the hard choices that make us have to walk away from people that are not bringing value to our life. I'm a people person and that is one of the hardest things that I've ever done is to walk away from people, because I love people, I like being around people, I get fed by being around people. One of the hardest things for me to do was to begin to really choose and allow the spirit to choose who is around me, because there's going to be people that'll love with themselves and if they're lovers of themselves, if they are unforgiving, if they are unloving, and you are around them, you will eventually be who they are because we gravitate towards the negativity, we gravitate towards being bitter, we gravitate towards misery loves company, but we're not called to stay miserable and we do not have to invite that company into our lives. So thank y'all so much for joining me today.

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